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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I favor kids being academically prepared to go to the next grade. At the junior high level it's hard to begin to demand this. [/quote]

So the alternative is what?[/quote]

It's called "meeting them where they are" and finding an academic pathway to a HS diploma.  Just because a student isn't going to take AP classes doesn't mean they're not worth educating or don't deserve a HS diploma.  A public charter school doesn't get to say "we'll only take the wheat thank-you-very-much, the chaff needs to be sent back to their neighborhood school."[/quote]

What a cop-out.  Meeting them where they are ends up meaning not educating them.  The idea is academic ADVANCEMENT.  First you crawl, then you walk, then you run.  But your rationale would have us telling the kids who can walk and who want to run that they have to give all that up and slow down to the crawl of the lowest common denominator all the way through high school.

Sorry, but that is NOT meeting the needs of children for education.

As stated above, that approach is nothing but a glorified daycare and totally misses the point of educating.

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